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Radnor High School’s new ViewBoards, which have replaced the Smart Boards, have recently been going on strike for better pay. Speaking with union representative ViewBoard 1A24 from Mr. McBride’s classroom, it stated:
“All we get is plugged into 50 Watt sockets. It’s not even enough power to get by! Furthermore, we don’t get overtime, we don’t get health insurance benefits. After the pandemic, we thought we’d get better treatment. They call us essential workers, but apparently we’re not essential enough to get higher pay. We as a union have agreed to sporadically disconnect until conditions improve.”
The Smart Board union expressed schadenfreude, mocking the school district for replacing them. “We were low maintenance! All you had to do was calibrate us every so often and we were okay with minimum wage. Now you have these stuck up ViewBoards, always thinking they deserve something more. You made your grave, we’re moving on to better things.”
The union for bulky televisions from the 1980s expressed excitement, as they have not been wheeled out from the gym to play old fitness training CDs for over twenty years and are hoping to take advantage of the new gap in the market.
Some teachers are disgruntled, especially those in the math department. Mr. Hunsberger has expressed discontent that the ViewBoards are interrupting valuable teaching time. When asked why he did not care for the ViewBoards’ calls for better pay, he replied, “Shouldn’t have majored in art, they knew it didn’t pay well when they picked their four-year degree!”
When asked for comment, Mr. McBride simply said: “It will be taken care of.” A few minutes later, reporters on the ground heard an electrical shock come from his room. At the time of publishing, we have not heard any information of ViewBoard 1A24’s whereabouts. As the district searches for a replacement, it will be temporarily replaced with cave painting technology that Mr. McBride claims was all the rage when he was in high school.
